# Scott Adams' top ten favorite Dilbert Comics. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075 "2013-10-12T14:55:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/21 "2013-10-14T13:23:02Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Yeah that’s happened at work a few times. Management comes up with some dumb-ass idea and then, _that same week_, you see the same thing in a Dilbert strip. It’s creepy. Where I work, they’re about two years behind Dilbert. Now, pardon me while I go assess myself. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/22 "2013-10-14T15:05:46Z")
[My all time favorite](http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/20000/3000/700/23758/23758.strip.zoom.gif) ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/23 "2013-10-14T15:07:30Z")
Wow, was Scott Adams lazy in picking those 10. I also put the ‘etch-a-sketch’ one near the top. [And I love this one](http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/20000/1000/000/21014/21014.strip.zoom.gif). [And this one, even though its needs updating.](http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=if+you+have+a+sound+card&view=list&filter=type%3Acomic) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/24 "2013-10-14T15:18:39Z")
Agreed that that list was horrible. It’s like he wrote it with a half hour and one folder’s worth of strips. [Personal favorite.](http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=sabbatical+best+of+wally&view=list&filter=type%3Acomic) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/25 "2013-10-14T16:06:10Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Yeah that’s happened at work a few times. Management comes up with some dumb-ass idea and then, _that same week_, you see the same thing in a Dilbert strip. It’s creepy. Adams does take emailed true stories of management dumbassery so that he can get ideas for his strip. I believe he took one from me back in the late 90’s, because about two or three weeks after I emailed it along, he had a strip using that same scenario. I have no proof that my email was the source, but it sure seemed like it. Maybe someone at your work emailed Adams and he used the idea. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/26 "2013-10-14T16:36:19Z")
I agree that Adams’s list was a half-assed effort. Still, I don’t entirely blame him. You could look through any year’s worth of strips and find two dozen that you’d be hard-pressed to narrow down to ten. And to do it over the life of the strip? Practically unthinkable. That said, as much as I love the “business” strips, my favorite strips come from the early days, where the work environment was a minor part, and pretty much anything wacky could happen. Two representatives of that era which never fail to make me smile: [Playing Scrabble with Dogbert](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-09-08/) [Bob the Dinosaur wants to be a babysitter](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1990-07-05/) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/27 "2013-10-14T16:44:26Z")
This one about fingernail computers came to mind > **[scottadams | Twitter | Linktree](https://linktr.ee/scottadams)** > > If you want to find Dilbert or Scott Adams, here are some leads. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/28 "2013-10-14T16:47:38Z")
My favorite…mainly for the last panel. I have it taped inside a desk drawer so it won’t draw any attention. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/29 "2013-10-14T17:05:54Z")
I have the last panel of [this strip](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-01-07/) up in my office. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/30 "2013-10-14T17:26:39Z")
Do you think this article is a meta-joke? The commentary is dry, colorless and unfunny. Sort of like you’d think a Business Insider would be like. And the cartoons, the driest most robotic like jokes recently. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/31 "2013-10-14T17:28:21Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I believe he took one from me back in the late 90’s, because about two or three weeks after I emailed it along, he had a strip using that same scenario. I have no proof that my email was the source, but it sure seemed like it. Because I am a bitter old man, I am going to shoot down your sweet, no doubt cherished, conjecture. Syndicates require cartoonists to be 6 weeks ahead of date. This doesn’t feel as good as I thought it would. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/32 "2013-10-14T23:36:28Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > I agree that Adams’s list was a half-assed effort. > > Still, I don’t entirely blame him. You could look through any year’s worth of strips and find two dozen that you’d be hard-pressed to narrow down to ten. And to do it over the life of the strip? Practically unthinkable. > > That said, as much as I love the “business” strips, my favorite strips come from the early days, where the work environment was a minor part, and pretty much anything wacky could happen. Two representatives of that era which never fail to make me smile: > > [Playing Scrabble with Dogbert](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-09-08/) > [Bob the Dinosaur wants to be a babysitter](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1990-07-05/) you are correct, those are excellent! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/33 "2013-10-15T00:22:08Z")
In my industry, these two hit way too close to home: > **[scottadams | Twitter | Linktree](https://linktr.ee/scottadams)** > > If you want to find Dilbert or Scott Adams, here are some leads. > **[scottadams | Twitter | Linktree](https://linktr.ee/scottadams)** > > If you want to find Dilbert or Scott Adams, here are some leads. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/34 "2013-10-15T01:36:19Z")
Being a farmer myself, and _also_ having worked in a few totally disfunctional offices, the all-too-brief [“cube farmer” episodes](http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=cube+farmer&view=list&filter=type%3Acomic&x=9&y=25)are my favorites. Especially the last one. Ohhh…if only I could’ve been standing by with my hoe when the boss turned his back… ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/35 "2013-10-15T03:10:41Z")
[This](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-05-17/) is one of my favorites. And possibly the creepiest one I’ve ever seen, too. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/36 "2013-10-15T06:06:12Z")
[I remember this one fondly.](http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=brown+ring+quality&x=0&y=0) But the humor didn’t hit me until shortly after I’d seen it, when I first saw the new (at that time) corporate logo for [Lucent Technologies.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent) Holy shit! Was Adams taking a shot at their (awful!) logo? I think so…and it was well earned! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/37 "2013-10-15T08:44:27Z")
Love this one > **[scottadams | Twitter | Linktree](https://linktr.ee/scottadams)** > > If you want to find Dilbert or Scott Adams, here are some leads. ---
**Author:** ![DemonSpawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@DemonSpawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonSpawn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/38 "2013-10-15T13:45:01Z")
For some reason, this one makes me laugh out loud every time: > **[scottadams | Twitter | Linktree](https://linktr.ee/scottadams)** > > If you want to find Dilbert or Scott Adams, here are some leads. Another favourite of mine: There was also a series of strips where the employees made the PHB think he was controlling the airplane he was on with his laptop. Can’t find it right now though… ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/39 "2013-10-15T15:47:41Z")
Not that I don’t love the corporate stupidity, but [this one](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-07-21/) is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075/40 "2013-10-15T17:28:22Z")
> [@DemonSpawn](#): > > Another favourite of mine: There was also a series of strips where the employees made the PHB think he was controlling the airplane he was on with his laptop. Can’t find it right now though… Not sure about a series, but there was [this one](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-09-10/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-top-ten-favorite-dilbert-comics/671075.md?page=3)